On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
If she was still alive, my mother would see to it that they
corrected their error! :-)
It may have become absorbed into correctness by usage, but by
definition, else cannot possess, one can.
All due respect to your mom, but she would have been wrong.
Indefinite pronouns that are followed by "else" are then stripped of
the possessive, transferring it to the "else."
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